"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Monday, February 13, 1911 BODY RESTS BY HER SONS. Kearney, Mo., Feb. 12 --- The funeral of Mrs. Zerelda SAMUELS, mother of the JAMES boys, was held from the Kearney Baptist church this afternoon at 2 o'clock, the whole countryside attending. Six grandchildren, including Jesse James, Jr., acted as pallbearers, and interment was made in the Kearney cemetery, where her son Jesse, and Archie, the 9-year-old son killed by a hand grenade thrown through a window, are buried. Rev. J. D. EVANS and Rev. Asa N. BIRD, the latter an old Baptist minister long associated with the JAMES family, made remarks bringing out the devotion she had always exhibited toward her family, and her Spartan motherhood. The Rev. Mr. BIRD received Mrs. SAMUELS into the membership of New Hope church after she had withdrawn her alliance because of trouble with her family over the marriage contracted with Mr. SIMMS after the death of her first husband, Rev. Robert JAMES, who went to California with the goldseekers in 1850. He recalls her as a remarkably beautiful woman at that time, and of a religious turn of mind. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================